It’s in the collection but no idea if or when it will be used in a display.

They may come to regret it.

The vote only extinguishes if the voter has completed no further preferences. It is up to a voter to nominate a next preference. Parties can no longer determine the between party preferences of a ballot paper.

By numbering the above the line boxes to indicate preferences between parties. If a voter wants to re-arrange the order of candidates within party groups they have to vote below the line. But to accept the candidate ordering and simply control flows between parties, the voters just numbers boxes.

No, that way of controlling preferences was abolished for the Senate in 2016. All between party preferences are now controlled and determined by voters, not parties and candidates.

After the first five vacancies were filled Babet had the highest remaining vote. He stayed ahead through the count. All preferences were completed by voters, not parties and candidates.

Utterly wrong. That has NEVER been the case in House elections, preferences are determined by the voter. The same has applied for the Senate since 2016 when group voting tickets were abolished.

it make a small difference, maybe a pct or two.

Well they're following the first move form change in NSW in 2000. The Federal government followed in 2016, SA in 2018, WA in 2025 and Victoria is having an inquiry with the intent of abolishing the tickets. WA is following the NSW and SA model where only a single '1' is required above the line.